Working Now Quotes

• I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better

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  Bob Barker

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

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  Elmer Bernstein

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• The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.

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  M. Ward

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

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  Derek Bailey

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• Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs… you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous. He laughed. "I would." She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell me another lie.

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  Julie Garwood

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.98, Penguin

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• What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.

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  Rachel Caine

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• I didn’t know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn’t know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don’t give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.203, Macmillan

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• Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

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  Jeanette Winterson

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• The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.

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  David Elkind

  David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

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  George Lucas

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

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  Radha Mitchell

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• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

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  Rafer Johnson

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

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  Jack Prelutsky

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• South Africa is regarded as being an extraordinarily important country - not just for South Africa, but for Southern Africa, for the BRICS, working now in a new way in which power is becoming more shared - thankfully.

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  Mary Robinson

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I saw these girls like Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle that should be working now instead of these anonymous girls. They're all the same.

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  Manolo Blahnik

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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